Fairness perceptions and reservation wages -The behavioral effects of minimum wage laws

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1347-1381

  Falk, Armin ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^b,c   Zehnder, Christian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Institute for Empirical Research in Economics   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 33845359275     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/qjec.121.4.1347     Document Type: Article

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